Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local

Download or read book Contesting the Indian City: Global Visions and the Politics of the Local written by Gavin Shatkin and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2014 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Contesting the Indian City" features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space relating to urban development in modern India.Features studies that serve to deepen our theoretical understandings of the changes that Indian cities are experiencingExamines how urban redevelopment policy and planning, and reforms of urban politics and real estate markets, are shaping urban spatial change in IndiaThe first volume to bring themes of urban political reform, municipal finance, land markets, and real estate industry together in an international publication